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How are they forcing you to do anything?

• brian-armstrong 10y ago
  They've also removed the headphone jack from the newest model iPhone. You can get an adapter that adds it back, but obviously this is fairly inconvenient. Apple's counting on this to get people to toss their old earbuds/headphones. Maybe force is too strong, but it certainly seems physically connected audio devices are now deprecated
  • peteretep 10y ago
    Luckily Apple don't have a monopoly on wireless headphones?
  • hobarrera 10y ago
    You can use some plain old bluetooth headsets like most people have been for years. If you really dislike wireless for some reason, you can also get lighting earbuds (I think the iPhone 7 actually includes some). Finally, if you like all these ideas so much, you can avoid purchasing the product you dislike. It's not like they're forcing this onto existing clients by disabling the existing 3.5mm jack.
    • spost 10y ago
      Or use the included lightning -> 3.5 mm adapter.
  • neotek 10y ago
    >Maybe force is too strong, but it certainly seems physically connected audio devices are now deprecated Well yeah, they sort of are. The future is wireless, there's really no denying that at this point.